Jode Rehjo Raaj – With English Translation

This post is a special dedication to Gujarati’s all across the globe and one of my favorite Gujarati singer, Falguni Pathak. Thank you Falguni Mam for your beautiful compositions and garba’s over all these years. I have been your fan ever since.

O beloved mine, be with me always
I am madly in love with you, since and for many births to come..
My love story is unique, from rest of the world,
O dear beloved mine,
Reside in my heart, reside in my soul and reside in my world,
O beloved mine, be with me always..
As the sun and the stars are together since and for eternity,
O beloved mine, be with me always..

What touched me the most about this song was the beautiful video. It begins with a newly wedded bride settling with her husband. Majority of Indian marriages follow the arranged marriage suite – where you haven’t really dated the person you are to be married to. A unique and a beautiful concept that has always fascinated me.

She wakes up quite late while her husband is already ready for office having his breakfast and welcomes her warmly to the breakfast table with a smile. During the day, she flips though her old photo album and cherishes her past achievements which she though she would have to forget as she was now ‘married’ ! She makes space in her room re-arranging the furniture and practices her dance which she thoroughly enjoys and her husband watches her dance. Glancing him, she shies away and the next day her husband gifts her a pair of anklets for her dance practice.

He clicks a video of his wife while she does a small performance for him and uploads it to YouTube creating her channel. Her video goes viral, she gets really famous and they both celebrate her or their success.

I think this little video has so much to teach and while every one would be wondering how lucky the girl is to have such a loving and supportive husband, I wish I do things like what the husband did for his wife, for my future spouse and fill his life with love and light ❤

All of us deserve love that loves us for our goodness, is proud of us, makes us a better version of our own selves and is happy for our success.

P.S.:This is the first post in which I am posting something in Gujarati, my mother tongue. I hope I have done justice in translating the lyrics. Suggestions are welcome 🙂

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37 thoughts on “Jode Rehjo Raaj – With English Translation”

I think it is such a beautiful miracle when an arranged wedding turns out in so much love. What an example of thoughtfulness and support. Yes, this is love to give the other person reason and freedom to dance. A touching story behind that song. Thank you for sharing!!

Thank you, Angel Erika.
I am so glad you liked the touching story of arranged love. I think language is no barrier and love spreads across borders. Thank you again for reading and your comment 🙂
Hugs ❤

SMiLes.. my FriEnd Himali.. for
where Free Dance
exists
there is
no real need
for spoken Language
to get a Message across
of Free
heArt
SpiriT
SoUL
expressing
what it even means
to live in emotional
and sensory LiGHT..
sadly.. since humans started
wearing clothes and that is no promotion
alone for the benefits of being one with Nature
without the constraints
of the cultures
we wear
but truly
this fully dressed
woman in beautiful
Indian attire expresses
her heART and SpiRiT
and SoUL Naked with her
dance no matter how many or how few
or how colorful or bland her wear of life is..
and we see ‘the man’ in common rigid upright
posture stoic pose and she wonders if that posture
will bend
to the
liGht
of heR
heART’s’ SpiRit
ExpreSsinG greater
LiGht of EmotioNal
and Sensory miNd
and BoDy BaLanCinG
SoUL through the art of her
Dance SpiRit aLIve so Free and the
Young Man is not so rigid and trapped in
patriarchal ideals not to allow his wife to flower free
this way even sharing that beauty of free with the World..
as you often see me doing with Flower Katrina with no shame
too.. as Flower is not something to be hidden under the rug of God
that is
LiGhT
mY FriEnd
Free as Love
anyway.. the inability
for men to express emotion
is rooted deep in tribal nature
of warring cultures fighting for subsistence
against other tribes raising men without empathy
to overcome the natural aversion to kill another human
being.. these trappings are clearly still and easily seen in the
swords of modern Abrahamic Religions/Cultures that originate in areas
of deserts with scarcities for even the basic requirement for life that is
water so ‘we’ turn
the men into
monsters
to kill
and protect
and acquire the
basic water and food
of life without thriving with
the Love that is all pro-social emotions
experienced.. including even crying on the shoulders
of other men.. it happens in more primitive cultures MUCH
MORE advanced in Emotional intelligences among the genders
equally where men don’t die nearly as young from CardioVascular Disease
as the heART is actually the seat of an emotional intelligence as complex as
the brain
we think
rules
our
worlds
in more patriarchal
cultures to free dance like
this is to come to the state of Nirvana
and Bliss without just sitting still and emptying
oneself of negative emotions for elixir of EmoTioNal/SenSoRY Light iN true
Nirvana and Heaven in now is the heART that escapes greater through
the Dance of Love as liGht surely does when free in being human…
most men where i live have
never seen what emotional
release can bring
in terms
of actual
will and
strength
in a man..
enough to leg press
1020 Lbs in my case at a Military
Gym 33 times on a machine that is
much more difficult than most men will
even attempt to use as it doesn’t have a sled
to carry the weight as one must use their own power
of gravity and balance in grace to press the weight..
one time a Marine who managed to press 1200 Lbs
on the other machine could not
budge it one inch..
i tried to explain
to him the
reason
i could some
35 years older than
him was the free style
ballet mixed with martial
arts that i use to heighten the
Pro-Social Emotions than run through
my body free that power every Quadrillion
or so connection in every cell of my body from
head to toe in the ‘Star Wars Force’ otherwise known
and felt and sensed as CHI in Martial Arts.. it’s all gibberish
to ‘them’ of course and on top of that they are deathly afraid someone
might think they are GAY if a man were to express emotion though his body grace
fully as free as this as meanwhile they get weaker as they grow older with premature
heart disease and i grow stronger with literally Hundreds of Young Women in the
Metro Area smiling at the side
of a man
who is
not
afraid
to be Love
Free in all the
ways that comes..
i win for i love every now
i win for i love as God will in
human man and women as
HuWoMaN when truly Free iN As LiGht oF LoVE..
the only thing missing in the video my friend is the
Husband Dancing with his wife
as
free
as her..
when that
happens the
World will be a much better NICER place..
but sure this a first step toward a World of Love
such a simple solution a free dance of more than
one togeTHeR is.. meanwhile there is ‘the solo’ with
God ‘wHo’ is never alone allone
as
‘they’
say in the
‘you’ that is me..:)
Oh yeah and on Saturday
while Dancing at Winn Dixie
when an African American Woman
Cashier tells the other Cashier “he’s so bad”
as i do an exhibition in front of all the Cashier
Lines and by the way the usage of ‘bad’ per
the Michael Jackson song per say.. hehe..
the next day on Sunday
a rather ‘scrawny’ ‘Red
Neck’ young man
sitting tall
in a
big truck
with huge tires
then stops to watch
me dance for a minute
on ‘the sidewalk to best buy’
and considering i do weigh
233Lbs and can handle my
body in unusual ways he
says ‘hell yeah that’s
it” from a distance and
i walk up to the
truck and say
hell yeah
it’s THE
HIGWAY
TO
Heaven
baby.. and then
he says i want some
of what you are on and
then i say have you ever heard of God..
rhetorical question where i live where four
wheel drives live as they all at least pay lips
to the word Jesus.. and then he says hell yeah
i know God and i say well to really know God you
have to feel and sense
God more
than
sitting
still and of
course he has
no idea what i am
saying as he’s never danced
free with God.. anyway.. i don’t give up showing ‘them’ how..
and also showing them what Heaven looks like on earth from the outside in..;)

Anyway.. thanks so much
Himali for sharing this video
my friend for this
and a
Science
Video will
surely add
to the inspiration oF ALL oF this that is… LovELiGHT

P S

Just picture this.. me
Standing NoW iN front of
A Regional Metro-Area population
Gulf Coast of Hundreds of thousands
of “Red State Bullies” as A Mountain of Love
as they ‘melt’ in front of me away from
any potential
anger
they
might
otherwise bring..
it’s how i experience
life now as opposed to the
Bullies at the City Park and
the Halls of Middle School who
said in verbal and non-verbal language
that if you even smile ‘Queer’ we will beat you
down in a metaphorical Crucifixion of Hate.
That really happened LITERALLY
many times
when i am
young
and
Makes me into
A Mountain oF A LOVERainBoWMaNoW..;)
So in other
words now
you know
why i
say
SMiLEs so much now mY FriEnd online in words..
it’s what ‘they’ did tHeir best to take away from me..
for a while.. iN pART.. ’66 months’ and a few other years of my life..
And a desert iN A Loss of Overall Creativity for 50 years from ages 13 to 53..
‘they’ were successful iN parT and NoW aLL i do is my best to bring a smile to ‘them’.
It
works
with the
Women at least..
as empirically proven
in all the photos online
and now that’s why ‘they’
STiLL are my ‘favored ones’..
as it’s first come first serve still..
And sure.. all the ‘other ones’ are
missing is Heaven on eARTh and Much
Greater Love and Strength
and
Will
and Grace..
Having no idea
just how much they
have been lied to all tHeir LiFE.

SMiLes..
No way i
Would have
Found Heaven
if God
Didn’t
Choose
My wife..
Nothing
Random
My
FriEnd
When
Love attracts
Beyond so-called
Financial Success
As areas of
Scarcity
Arrange
Marriages
For mostly
That
Reason
My FriEnd..
But anyway
For
Some
Just another
Cross to carry as
i have personally
Witnessed with a
Friend from
Pakistan
And
India where
This is long
Standing
Cultural
Tradition
For
Basic
Survival
My FriEnd..
It is what it is
A Humans create
Their Cultural
Realities always..:)

I am so sorry for the delayed reply. I have been on a small blogging break. Gujarati is very similar to Hindi. Perhaps someday, I might be able to sing the song for you (PS – I am a terrible singer 😉 ) 😀
Cheers!

The pseudo Gujju in me woke and felt so happy on reading this (Born and brought up in Ahmedabad)…. This is truly a wonderful story and great progress from the otherwise drab content that often comes out of the industry!

What a beautiful coincidence ! I am also from Ahmedabad (Memnagar – Near Himalaya Mall) and so glad to find a fellow amdavadi via this post. I too loved the story in the music video. Bdw, I am visiting Ahmedabad for a couple of days and enjoying the sunny day today 🙂

I too have been a big fan of Falguni Pathak’s hindi songs and Garba’s. Grew up listening and humming her melodies. Navratri coming a fortnight and geared up for the festive season. Do you also enjoy Navratri ?

Beautiful lyrics ..Though one of my closest friend is from Ahmedabad but I don’t understand Gujrati that much however Falguni pathak & Dandiya nights are quiet popular here in North India as well..besides , I try specially not to miss reading anything Indian on wordpress ..I too have recently written a funnny blog on Indian couples..Do spare some time to go through it..

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